Books by J.J. Murphy
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review 1: This appears to be the last of a trilogy and I have to admit I am relieved. These are bad books, but they are tedious. This one is set on New Year's Eve and the game of "Murder" turns real--but there are way too many strings and it takes on a Keystone Kops atmosphere--the refer...
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review 1: This is the second in the Algonquin Roundtable Mystery series featuring poet Dorothy Parker and writer Robert Benchley. Second-rate illustrator Ernie MacGuffin slips a suicide note in Dorothy's purse that leads the amateur sleuth to the scene of his death on the Brooklyn Bridge. ...
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review 1: As I am currently reading the Dorothy Parker biography as well as the Portable, the back-and-forth wisecracks in this book are very familiar. Dorothy and the whole Round Table gang appear here and when another theater critic is killed, they all become suspects. Parker and Benchle...